Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cracked Nuts (Radio). This is a nonsense comedy of which the humor, if any, depends on seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade...
This evening at 8.15 o'clock in Woolsey Hall in New Haven the University Glee Club will give the traditional joint concert with the Yale singers, with some 60 members of the Harvard group scheduled to take part...
...Peace Worth Preserving" by Woodrow Wilson, W. H. Melish '31; "Hymn Before Sunrise" by Coleridge, Carleton Green '30: Speech before the Massachusetts Senate by Calvin Coolidge, F. F. Wilder '32: "The Washington Conference", anonymous, J. W. Norcross '32; "Woolsey's Farewell" by Shakespeare, H. C. Friend '31: "The New South" by H. W. Grady, G. E. Lodgen '32: "The Passing of Arthur" by Tennyson, J. L. Ware '30: "The Bishop Orders his Tomb" by Browning, M. F. Loewenstein '32: "Bryan" by Vachel Lindsay, D. D. Lloyd '31: Selection from "John Brown's Body" by Benet, Abbot Peterson...
...last Saturday night of the 1920 campaign Taft made a ringing speech in Woolsey Hall at New Haven in behalf of the Republican party and the election of Warren Gamaliel Harding. Less than eight months later President Harding appointed him Chief Justice of the U. S., which had always been the goal of his ambition...